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A23
WEDNESDAY,
JUNE 11,
2014
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PRAIA DO FORTE---The animal oracle
predictions for the World Cup have begun,
with host nation Brazil getting a vote of
confidence from its chosen turtle tipster.
By making a patriotic choice of food,
loggerhead turtle Big Head predicted
yesterday that the host nation will beat
Croatia in the opening game of the World
Cup on Thursday.
Big Head is Brazil's answer to Germany's
Paul the Octopus, who started the psychic
animal craze during the 2010 World Cup and
spawned a slew of imitations around the
world.
At the Praia do Forte turtle sanctuary
north of Salvador, the 25-year-old male sea
turtle was given the choice between eating a
fish hung from a Brazilian flag or a Croatian
flag. After attempting to eat the fish hung
from a football indicating a draw, Big Head
chose the one representing Brazil. (AP)
Brazil's animal oracle predicts home win over Croatia
SAO PAULO---Floods have killed
nine people and driven tens of
thousands of people from their
homes while swelling rivers to
record levels in southern Brazil
and neighbouring Paraguay and
Argentina, authorities said yes-
terday, but so far they have not
affected preparations for soccer s
World Cup.
The civil defence department in
Brazil s Parana state said that 132
cities have been flooded there,
including the state capital of Curiti-
ba that will host four World Cup
games.
It said 13,000 people have been
forced to evacuate due to torrential
rains upstream.
Curitiba City Hall spokesman
Alvaro Borba said the Arena da
Baixada stadium, the training cen-
tre, hotels and tourist sites are
nowhere near the Borigui river that
overflowed its banks.
He said the Spanish national
team has been training normally
and forecasters said rains are not
expected when the stadium hosts
its first Cup encounter on June 16,
when Iran meets Nigeria.
Other teams playing in the city
are Iran, Honduras, Ecuador, Aus-
tralia, Algeria and Russia.
The torrential rainfalls of recent
days also have caused widespread
flooding in Argentina and Paraguay,
where officials said about 100,000
people had been forced to evacuate.
The Iguazu and Parana rivers that
Brazil shares with Paraguay and
Argentina rose to historic levels,
forcing authorities to open two
major hydroelectric dams above the
world-renowned Iguazu Falls.
On the Brazil side, the rising
water swallowed the cement view-
ing platform where thousands of
tourists usually take selfies below
the "Garganta del Diablo," or Devil s
Throat. (AP)
World Cup host
city hit by floods
...thousands flee
MANILA---A Philippine legislative committee
approved a bill yesterday that would compel cig-
arette manufacturers to print illustrations of
smoking hazards on cigarette packs to curb
smoking in a country where tens of thousands
die yearly from tobacco-related diseases.
The illustrations, which could include pictures
of cancerous lungs and throats, will occupy the
lower half of the front and back panels of a cigarette
pack. The current warning contains only words,
saying that smoking is dangerous. (AP)
NEW DELHI---A bus carrying 14 Russian tourists
fell into a mountain river in northern India yes-
terday, killing at least two people, police said.
The bus had been taking the tourists to the
Hindu temple town of Gangotri when it fell off
a mountain road and plunged into the Bhagirathi
River in Uttarakhand state.
Eleven injured tourists were taken by helicopter
to a hospital in Dehradun. Their conditions were
unclear.
Representatives of the Russian Embassy were
travelling from New Delhi to Dehradun, 150 miles
to the north. (AP)
Six people have been killed in violent storms
which battered cities in western Germany
overnight.
In the worst incident, three died when a tree
fell on a garden shed in Duesseldorf where they
had sought shelter, emergency services said.
Cyclists were also killed by falling trees in
Cologne and Krefeld and a sixth person died while
clearing a street in Essen.
The storms ended a heatwave that lasted
throughout the Whitsun weekend holiday.
Winds of up to 93mph were recorded at Dues-
seldorf airport. (BBC)
PHNOM PENH---Cambodia s prime minister
yesterday derided rumours he had suffered a
stroke, warning that if he were to die prematurely
the country would spin out of control and the
opposition could expect trouble from the armed
forces.
Prime Minister Hun Sen spoke scotched the
rumours on Monday by meeting with former Sin-
gaporean Foreign Minister George Yeo.
Reacting to reports that the opposition had
believed the rumour, he said wishing for the death
of other people was inhuman.
He advised his critics not to wish for his death,
and if he should fall victim to such a thing as a
stroke, they better be prepared because anything
could happen to them. (AP)
KARACHI---Gunmen in
Pakistan attacked a
training facility for airport
police near the Karachi
airport yesterday, forcing
a temporary suspension
of flights and triggering a
brief shootout with
security forces just days
after a Taliban assault on
the country's busiest
airfield.
Law enforcement
personnel managed to
quickly repulse the attack
by as many as three
gunmen, an assault
claimed by a resurgent
Taliban who warned its
violence "wasn't over
yet."
Yesterday's firefight
came on the heels of a
ferocious siege Sunday
night by ten Taliban
fighters who stormed a
VIP and cargo terminal at
the Karachi airport in an
attack that killed 26
people and the Taliban
gunmen.
At least 11 members of
the Airport Security
Force were killed during
that attack. (AP)
Guinea---More than a
month after Guinea Presi-
dent Alpha Conde told re-
porters the Ebola outbreak
that originated in his coun-
try was under control, the
death toll continues to
climb in his country as well
as in Sierra Leone and
Liberia.
At least 231 people have
died since the outbreak of
the fearsome disease,
which causes bleeding in-
ternally and externally and
for which there is no
known cure.
Guinea has recorded
just over 200 deaths,
along with about a dozen
each in Sierra Leone and
Liberia.
Experts say the out-
break may have begun as
far back as January in
southeast Guinea. It's one
of the worst outbreaks
since the disease was first
recorded in 1976. (AP)
Bus with Russians
falls into Indian river
Philippines to make
smoking warnings graphic
Six dead in Germany storms
Cambodian PM says
opposition will rue his death
Gunmen strike
at Pakistan
airport again
Ebola death toll
keeps climbing
Peruvian shamans perform a good luck ritual using a doll representing Argentina's soccer player Lionel
Messi outside the National Stadium in Lima, Peru, yesterday. Soccer fans around the world are gearing
up to watch the World Cup soccer tournament that kicks off Thursday in Brazil. AP PHOTO
MESSI RITUAL